If only there was a free software licence that required people to make their changes available…
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My experience of the Erlang Public License, a derivative of MPL is that many just do not care or bother. Even if they knew they were infringing the license. Those who contribute back to OSS do so irrespective of license.
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Maybe if there was a licence you could use where the FSF was keen to sue violators on your behalf...
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Find out about it, assuming the company is interested in pursuing, prove it in court, and release the changes which mean nothing to the maintainers. If the will, culture and attitude is not there, you are waiting your time.
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One exception I've encountered - the PHP community.
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I have seen companies hoard PHP fixes and never give back. It is not about community, but more about companies and attitude. And sometimes, because of lack of time.
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I agree it varies across companies, but some communities do it better than others.
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Absolutely
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Yes, that’s way worse as it is one of the motivations to go open source.
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